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ring the service in different capacities. Some received appointments in the Virginia Provisional Army, which appointments were vacated by general order about September 1st following. I applied for one of these, but before receiving it the Virginia forces were turned over to the Confederacy, and no more appointments were made; I consider it fortunate now that I didn't get it. I determined to remain at the University till the end of the session, but in May, just before the election of Thursday, May 24th, I went home to Hanover county, desiring to vote in my own county for the Ordinance of Secession, which was at that time ratified almost unanimously by the people of the State. The Yankees about that time raised their hue and cry about Union feeling in the South, and especially in Virginia, but the unaninimity with which the Ordinance of Secession was ratified well shows—what we knew all along—that there was no Union feeling in the State, except in some of the Western counties, whic